Turning off the prefetch speeds up K-Meleon? I'll give it a try but I thought it would be faster to leave it on.

Re: settings to speed kmeleon browsing? what were those?

Posted by:
void main()

Date: July 06, 2003 06:07AM

user_pref("network.prefetch-next", false);

Link prefetching only works on certain pages designed exploit this feature so it's not like you'll see much of a difference, if you're on dialup it will slow you down noticeably on graphics intensive pages but other than that it seems to work best on pages with very few graphics (at least for me).

KM faster loading time

Posted by:
Giovanni

Date: July 06, 2003 04:37PM

Has anybody found a way of improving KM loading time without resorting to the loader? It really takes a while on my 200 mhz , 64 mb.
Any help will be highly appreciated.
Giovanni

Re: settings to speed kmeleon browsing? what were those?

Posted by:
Klaartje

Date: July 07, 2003 05:07PM

Trim down you bookmarks/favourites list.
If you really want to use all of them, try using the bookmarks.htm. file as a homepage!

// Show full path for plugin file on aboutlugins page
// the full path was removed for security purposes, please keep that in mind
user_pref("plugin.expose_full_path", true); // Default is false

// Find As You Type Configuration:
// Set this pref to false to disable Find As You Type:
user_pref("accessibility.typeaheadfind", true);
// If you set this pret to true, typing can automatically start Find As You Type.
// If false (default), you must hit / (find text) or ' (find links) before your search.
user_pref("accessibility.typeaheadfind.autostart", true);
// Set this pref to false if you want Find As You Type to search normal text too:
user_pref("accessibility.typeaheadfind.linksonly", false);
// Set this pref to true if you require that the link starts with the entered text:
user_pref("accessibility.typeaheadfind.startlinksonly", false);
// This is the time in milliseconds for the Find As You Type to stop watching for keystrokes:
user_pref("accessibility.typeaheadfind.timeout", 3000);

Does anyone care to tell me or is there anywhere that explains what this timer based reflow management pref does in relation to the nglayout paint delay preference?

Re: settings to speed kmeleon browsing? what were those?

Posted by:
CutTheRedWire

Date: August 05, 2003 03:33AM

You might want to start a new thread for that.
Draw more attention to it.
Better chances of an answer. 8)

I could be wrong, but it can't hurt.
Wish I could do more to help. ^.^;

Re: settings to speed kmeleon browsing? what were those?

Posted by:
void main()

Date: August 08, 2003 05:08PM

Just wanted to say that these lines made those most dramatic speed increases for me. I had only tweaked the user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0); preference earlier but adding these other three lines makes K-M display pages even sooner. Great tweak!

You now have a Cookie from NSA.gov, and your Firefox browser has downloaded http://www.NSA.gov. Nice implementations of privacy Firefox team. Good job.

Re: settings to speed kmeleon browsing? what were those?

Posted by:
Drahken

Date: October 13, 2005 06:43PM

If you set initialpaint delay too low, you'll get a "flashing" effect on some pages when the page is redrawn (why the F~ the thing thinks it has to draw the page twice is beyond me, since it never changes anything in the redraw). In theory, those 3 reflow settings should be able to fix that, but I wonder if setting them higher would fix it or setting them lower?

Don't forget the setting browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers to improve back/forward button performance. Keep in mind that the number you choose reflects how many pages will be kept in memory. A higher number means that you'll be able to quickly go back further, but it also means KM will use more memory. 10 is the default number for 1.8+ (1.7 defaults to 0), I find 3 or 4 works best (how often do you go back more than 3 or 4 pages?)
*NOTE: This setting onlyt truly works in 1.8x and newer GREs. However, it does improve back/forward performance in 1.7x GREs as well.

Set all those obnoxious content.notify/reflow thing extremely low. I just toyed with the settings and got this thing going insanely fast (and without that damned flashing crap). Here's my settings:http://drahken.t35.com/speed-settings.png

This thing renders even faster than opera now.

Re: settings to speed kmeleon browsing? what were those?

Posted by:
bst82551

Date: October 14, 2005 02:46AM

WHOA! You weren't kidding. Those settings improved rendering speed DRAMATICALLY... or at least they did on my system. Maybe on a slower system, a little tweaking would need to be done.
Thanks for that, Drahken!

Brian

Re: settings to speed kmeleon browsing? what were those?

Posted by:
guenter

Date: October 14, 2005 03:08AM

Drakken: hx;
but why did not You go into files and copy pasted Your findings here?
Bad typists like me would have a much easier time ; - )

@all
a copy of the famous Achilles tweak guide is also with the last issue
of the release notes at:

about: speed
It has been discussed in a long thread prior to w-b last year (summer).
it mostly depends on settings, hardware and where You go (yeast)
- & it does not matter so much which newer Rendering Engine someone uses.
(newer = Gecko & Opera // else fast = MSIE 4.x and 5.x but usualy not 6.x)

GRE 1.8.x is slightly faster then 1.7.x on most systems:
Dorian, Jan & others loved speed & new things
- so the w-b was created last year.

w-b = a k-meleon 0.8.2 that had modern default speed settings in prefs.js
(instead of those for an old pc on an old cable modem).
additionalöy w-b had joined xpt and was a so called static exe (dll inside exe)
for slightly less overhead and slightly more performance at start and rendering.

p. s. it was christened w-b because 2 official devs had a problem with the alternative name used inside the project ("k-m 0.8.3").

Re: settings to speed kmeleon browsing? what were those?

Posted by:
Drahken

Date: October 14, 2005 03:13AM

...Because I didn't think to copy it from the prefs.js file and there's no way to copy mutliple things at once from about:config.

Hmm... the first site I posted agrees with you, the other (which is the one I copied from) says it's notify.

Re: settings to speed kmeleon browsing? what were those?

Posted by:
guenter

Date: October 14, 2005 05:24AM

thx for posting and giving hints to fine tuning U 2

@Drakken - possibly some things are dependent (?) on provider settings
(all of us that want it really exact - may have to fine tune)
(so it is good to raise objection if it does not work for all here - 2 know save settings)